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50% is Not One Half

February 27th, 2023 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips A review of percent may surprise some. Sorry about that. Use this information cautiously. I recently read a contract that purported to calculate 50% of 50%. That struck me as odd, so given too much time on my hands, I thought about it a while. Warning: thinking about basic things for a […]

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Tags: Approximation · Concepts · Data Science · Mathematics

Data Science is the New Web Design

February 10th, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Many of today’s data scientists are similar to man of the web designers of the 1990s. I think this is a good thing. A recent conversation with a colleague helped me to realized something about data science in today’s world. I thought data scientists were computer scientists, engineers, and mathematicians who knew […]

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Tags: Data Science · Engineering · Experiment · Expertise · Mathematics · Science · Systems · Technology · Tools · Web 2.0

Words per Sentence

May 13th, 2021 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips This is perhaps the once piece of writing advice that has more return per ounce of effort there is. How many words do you have in a sentence? Here is an example of the first sentence of an article in a nationally famous newspaper (The Washington Post, 1 April 2021, and it […]

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Tags: Engineering · Journal · Mathematics · Writing

Why We Can’t Hire Enough Data Scientists

April 15th, 2021 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Another variation of Lewis Carroll’s “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” This time we apply it to hiring data scientists. “We can’t hire enough data scientists.” At least I read that almost everyday out there on the Internet. Well, why can’t we? Here are […]

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Tags: Agreement · Certification · Data Science · Jobs · Mathematics · Thinking · Word

Close Enough for a Good Approximation

August 26th, 2019 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Somewhere, somehow we forgot what a good approximation was. We used to tell this “joke” a long time ago in a place far, far away. Consider the situation with an amorous young gentlemen on one side of a room and an amorous young lady on the other side of the room. Every […]

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Tags: Analysis · Approximation · Computing · Mathematics